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L. KBONTHAL. ADJUSTABLE SWEAT BAND FOR HEADWEAR.

' APPLICATION FILED SEPT-22, ISIS- Patented Aug. 8, 1916;

.nwmrog L.Kron-fhal 1 A7TORNEY8 WITNESSES LOUIS snowmen, ornnw some, N. Y.

mus'rsnm swear-sens son unsnwns specificetloniof letters Patent.

Patented Aug, 8,1916.

Application-filed sw e est-o2, 191s. Serial n tifies.

Adjustable Sweet-Band for Hee'dwe ar, 0f

touch the followingyise, 11 charisma-exact description.

My invention relates to selfesdjnstable sweet bands for headwesr, and eniobject thereof is to provide a simplepconvement and inexpensive sweat] band wh ch cooperates with a self-odjnstingbsnd iof iheodwear' and which swezitband willnntomntically take up any increase. rin size-of the bend or the headwear. With the above. andother -ob ects.in View,

" the nature ofwhichkwillgmore -fnllyappear bnml, of the headwear secured thereto on ig. 3 is :1"horizontal:settlon through{the sweat band and exponsible' band of the head as the description Qproceeds, the invention consists in the novel construction, combina; tion and arrangement ofqparts as herein fully described; illustrated and claimed :in the accompanying drawings formingpart of the application. v I 7 Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts ,inall the views.

Figure 1 is a. perspective view offsheadwear, partly in section st difierent plocesto illustrate the details of construction "Figs 2 is-a perspective iew ofasection of; the sweatbzmd and a section'of the exPa Sible Wear in Fig. 1. s p I llei'erring to the drawings, 4 represents the expansible bond 30f thcgheadWesr 5.

The expansihle bandis formed. of'twosubstuntially inelastic sections 6 and 7,-."theends i p v "sweat band ofswcetgfhoof material sections nelostic section of the sections of the sweat" 'band having interengeging meonswhereby they can move relhtiv'ely to one another when of each section being connected byen elastic portion The section? ,Qand lllSGlZtSl/m part 8 are connected to the/body, of-thez-heodwear 5. "The sectionv 6"w1th' its ,elasticgportionfi encompasses the section; 7 with f its elastic portion, and it is only connectednt one point with its inelastic; part with the' elosticrpsrt 8 of the section 7 .WThis prevents the section (S from moving on the section 7 withoutpreventing the expansion of either of the 11 By: s ring the central central: part of the elastic portion; sot the section 7; thojtwo sections 6 and 7 ere disposed symmetr cally.

ing. slits end thereof 'Iwhile th cachsecured to the Secured to the lower edge of the inelastic sectlon 6 1s aisweavt bondsection 9 of moistore-proof material; and a somewhat similar sweat bend section 10is secured to the lower edge'of' t he inelastic portion 7. The sweat band section!) has slits 11 adjacent the ends 5 thereof through which the endsof the sweat bend sect1on10 project, as 'best shown in I Flgsrhand 3. 'A'portion ofthe sweat'band sectionldadjacent each-endthereof is left unsecured, as shown an, to the inelastic;

- section? sons to allow freedom of move inent to the sweat, bend section 9 when the 1 size of the-band 45 is Varied.

Itis self evidentthnt inplace ofprovidst each end of the sweat hand sectlOIlfttSllt ltmsybepMvided onlyv at one section 9. By providing an bond for .athesdweor, a more comfortable hendwesm results as on ordinary expensilole lbandof a heedwearisnot comfortable withwe 1noistnre proof materiel, said sections being associated with I theegipensihle band, said sweat' bend sections in hiding: means for compensatingfor thei increase or decrease in 1 size of theexpensible; bend.

' 2. In a 'hesdwear.,-an endless expansible bend and an exten'si 1e sweat band of moisture-proof materifoless0cistedj with the ex pansible band,- s'nhs'tential ly as end for the purposes, set forth.

other end of the sweat "bnndysection '10 maybe directly secured to the sweatbond .oextensible wentjh nd with an expsnsible v 3.111 'e Iheadweon en expensible band.

formedv of inelastic and elastic sections, and

I I v .5 expansible bond,"sa1d the size of thes expa nsibleband is varied.

' 4. In aheedwegr, tin expnnsible band com prising 1 an mole stlc portion, which-ere secured by an elastic portion, said inelastic and elastic portions being secured to thehody of-theheadwear, s-secon d inthe ends of sesumi imlastic pmrtiou being dispusemi sy1nmetrimflly u: the first inelastic portion, mean awning the second. inelastic porticm m thla central part of the first mentioned elastic wtiun; and :1 sweat band sectionsecured w each inelastic portion at the lower edges themoti, (me of said sweat. band seetin'ns having slits at the ends inerent' through avhlch the ends of the othmr sweat band section projects.

LOUIS KRON'ETH 913,-. Witnesses B. JOFFE, Pmmr 'D. RQLLHM 

